Object Details
- Description
- "An early sample of penicillin, such as was used for the first human trials in the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. This material almost certainly had less than 40 units per mg." as described by Dr. Norman G. Heatley, one of the members of the team that developed penicillin in 1940-41 at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. Dr. Heatley obtained this sample for the Smithsonian in 1953 for the museum's exhibition on antibiotics.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, through Dr. N. G. Heatley; Accession 199422 (1953)
- 1941-03-28
- ID Number
- MG.M-06696
- catalog number
- M-06696
- accession number
- 199422
- Object Name
- Penicillin, Sample
- antibiotic, sample
- biological
- Other Terms
- Penicillin, Sample; Antibiotics; Biologicals; Drugs; Non-Liquid
- Physical Description
- penicillin, crude (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 7/8 in x 7/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 2.2225 cm
- Place Made
- United Kingdom: England, Oxford
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_730404
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-4ecf-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
